Seminar on Web development

Students will learn the basic language, methods, and concepts required for web development, such as HTML and CSS, based on recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Students will gain an understanding of the concept of accessibility and aim to create websites that are easy to use for as many people as possible. In addition, we will consider various copyright issues through the practice of website development. Students will discuss these points in groups at each stage of development, starting from site planning. Depending on students’ progress, they may also learn the basics of the scripting languages that are commonly used to create dynamic websites, leading to more advanced development. However, we intend to select the course content flexibly according to students’ level of understanding and learning progress.

ability to pursue one’s own end, Internet, web system, structured document, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, copyright, group work, network protocol

Week 1: Orientation
Week 2: Introduction to how the Internet and the World Wide Web work
Weeks 3–5: Learning HTML and creating webpages (understanding the logical structure of documents)
Week 6: Website planning (objective, target audience, development guidelines, and outline)
Weeks 7–9: Learning and applying CSS (understanding how documents are displayed)
Week 10: Basics of copyright
Weeks 11–13: Learning scripting languages(Introduction to JavaScript)
Weeks 14–15: Uploading files to the web server and content review (class questionnaire conducted in week 15)
Week 16: Presentation of each student’s results

Syllabus (Japanese site only)